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• Tokyo wants to make Olympic medals from old smartphones

  Japan will kick off a drive this week to collect old smartphones and other portable gadgets so that they can be turned into medals for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics.

• Aussie IT leaders: No streaming the Olympics in the office!

  Nearly three quarters (73 per cent) of Australian companies plan to stop employees from streaming Olympic Games coverage on work networks, according to a survey.

• Jumping hurdles on the road to Rio 2016: AOC's head of IT Anthony Soulsby

  The 400 plus Australian athletes and their support teams heading to Rio will need to ignore all the city’s woes and focus. Helping them do just that is Anthony Soulsby, general manager of IT at the AOC and his team.

• Google designing new Mountain View headquarters

  Google will submit plans this week to build a new headquarters in Mountain View, Calif.

• Facebook, iPhone 6 and Kim Kardashian top Bing's 2014 search lists

  With 2014 almost over, Microsoft has released its lists of the top searches on Bing and, so far, Apple's iPhone 6, Facebook and Kim Kardashian are the year's big winners.

• London Olympics CIO says smartphones were big hurdle

  The CIO of the 2012 Olympic Games in London, Gerry Pennell, had to prepare for an explosion of smartphone use that had never been seen at Olympic events.

• Warnings for smartphone, credit-car users at World Cup

  Soccer fans lucky enough to be traveling to Brazil for the World Cup are hearing an earful of consumer warnings about potentially onerous smartphone roaming charges and credit card ripoffs at ATMs and restaurants.

• Avaya builds massive Wi-Fi net for 2014 Winter Olympics

  Avaya engineers are putting the final touches on a network capable of handling up to 54Tbps of traffic when the Winter Olympics opens on Feb. 7 in the Russian city of Sochi.

• Netflix to dump Silverlight, Microsoft's stalled technology

  Netflix plans to abandon Microsoft's Silverlight media player plug-in for Windows and OS X in-browser video streaming, and replace it with a trio of HTML5 extensions.

• Overcoming volatility with agility

  Computerworld's Premier 100 conference opened Monday with a keynote topic that was close to the hearts of many of the 500 IT professionals in attendance: an obscure acronym called VUCA.

• London wires up for 2012 Olympic games

  While London's massive Olympic park is still very much a frenetic construction site, IT engineers are fine tuning the equipment that will be used to transmit scores, let athletes send e-mail and transmit high-definition video of the Games.